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...Comparison shopping engines show the same trend; their most popular visitor segments tend to be young wealthy urbanites, not the middle- to lower-income Internet users that could benefit the most from savings on high-consideration purchases...
Observers inside and outside France have likened Nicolas Sarkozy to Margaret Thatcher, a comparison Sarkozy himself has embraced. A more apt British comparison, however, might be with Tony Blair. Like Sarkozy, the youthful Blair also challenged party and political sacred cows in his first months, and he was similarly accused of accumulating too much personal power, ignoring Parliament, manipulating the media, cozying up to dubious tycoons, and aligning his country's foreign policy too closely with that of the United States. But Blair also won three consecutive elections, destroyed his political opposition, modernized the British economy, passed major domestic reforms...
...could have lived with the burden of comparison to the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Rockabilly pioneer Janis Martin did. In the mid-1950s, riding the success of Blue Suede Shoes and Heartbreak Hotel, RCA discovered the talented 15-year-old and dubbed her the "female Elvis." Though she privately winced at the moniker, Martin--who preferred the sound of Carl Perkins--lived up to the billing with a booming voice, gyrating hips and appearances on American Bandstand and the Tonight Show. She faded in the late '50s, but her records, including Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll...
...young Serbs represent a surprising flowering of talent for a tiny country of 10 million. In comparison, the U.S., with 30 times the population, also has three players in the top ten. Serbia, moreover, has no national tennis center and few indoor courts. Ivanovic fell in love with the game at age 5 after watching Serbian-American Monica Seles play on TV, but she and Jankovic both had to practice in an abandoned indoor swimming pool in downtown Belgrade for lack of other facilities. Both were also kids when U.S. planes bombed their hometown in the campaign to drive Serbian...
...Salman Khan's story is less sensational by comparison. He was charged with shooting endangered gazelles while taking a break from filming a Bollywood flick in Rajasthan in 1998. In April 2006, he was found guilty and sentenced to five years, finally landing in prison last week after losing an appeal of his conviction...